Sup?!

"Yo, yo, yo. How are things?"

This is how someone started an MSN conversation. So its time to update the blog, although the two events are not necessarily related. Long time no updates. Last post was about tournaments. I did play a decent number of tournaments that Sunday, but to no avail. I had a break even night. Busted out of the big sunday tournaments and had top 50 runs in the $55 ones.

Unfortunately I am not going to the WSOP this summer. Did I mention that in an older blog? Not sure. However, the weekend of the main event Ive planned a weekend away to Cracow in Poland. When I planned that, I just forgot about the WSOP. However, next year I will be there. I will buy in directly or qualify. Got plenty of FPPs to participate.

Pokerwise it is ok-ish. Not really running that well one day and running fine the other. Standard hand: I bet, someone raises, I 4bet. Get a call. Flop KJ2 with me holding AK. I bet and get a call. Turn Ace. I bet and get raised allin. River bricks and villain shows QT. Same with plenty strange hands, like Q2o turning two pair, 78o flopping trips in a 4bet pot and so forth.

No real reason to complain though. used to be tight and setmining. Lately it is transformed to: "Hey, so not every 3bet is air"... Also looking a bit more at Omaha and sit and go's. Omaha is so swingy, but I find it fun to play. So many mistakes are made. On the other hand, there is not one single style that is "good". Like in 6-max NL Holdem, someone playing between 15/12 and 24/22 is fine. In Omaha a 10/10 and 40/28 can be fine.

I play the turbo sit and go's. Sick variance there as well. In the later levels of the 1-table sit and go's (depending on the stack sizes usually starting from 50/100 and 75/150), it is just a shove-fiesta. However, they are fun to play. Keep playing steps as well, but they are less fun. To many monkeys to make "normal" play possible. Stil got my step 6 ticket. Will try to qualify for an EPT. Maybe in Moscow or Barcelona. Should be fun to play there.

Besides playing myself I am also writing articles for PokerNews. Have written a lot lately. Still manage to come up with new topics. New writers are always welcome though (mail me if youre interested). Furthermore I am staking some players. Got stakes in 4 players going to the WSOP. I am also buying stakes at ChipMeUp. It is linked to PokerNews. Check out the site. Its fun if youve got some money to spare.

Thats it for now. See you next time!

Grindin...and Tournaments

Just been grinding 100 to 400nl this month. Not too bad, but not too good either. Going to play some tournaments on Sunday. Probably including step 6. I will post updates on my blog or through twitter.



Might skipp or add a few, depending on how it goes obviously. If youre Dutch you should enter the Bart Spijker Charity tournament.

List with Video's

Someone asked me to post a list with video's. These are the most recent one's I could find.

100nl 04-2009
100nl 11-2008
400nl 09-2008
100PLO 08-2008
100nl 06-2008
200nl 05-2008
200nl 04-2008
2000nl 04-2008
200nl 03-2008
100nl 03-2008
25nl 03-2008
100nl 03-2008

There is a 25nl video in the list. Hope you'll be happy :)

April was ok

April was ok. I finished 3rd in a $33 tournament, which helped. It was a bit of a rollercoaster cash game wise. While running a bit under EV, managed over 12bb/100 for the first 20k hands, after which lady variance kicked in. Still quite happy with my play.

I still have a step 6 ticket, which will be played in May. However, I will not go to Vegas. I found I booked a weekend away just when the main event starts. Next year I will be there, buying in or qualifying...

Just some fun hands.

Progress and video

Happy with the way I am playing. That is probably the best description of my game during the first few days of April. I am not going to much into details, but as I said in my last post I play fewer tables, select good tables (over 400 people in the buddy list might help) and play decent. I actually enjoy playing more at the moment. More than in the last few months.

I have uploaded a video of me playing 4 tables 100nl. Please give feedback, ask questions or comment otherwise.

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Skip the April 1st update

So lets update on 31 March.

Basically, I enjoy poker somewhat more that I did the last few months. Still the 1 and 2 outers are there, but I changed my game quite a bit. For one I stopped playing 20+ tables. Although it is perfectly manageable, it is also a bit mindnumbing. Now I play 9 or 10 tables and my winrate is definitely improving a lot. Hourly rate is a bit less, ut I am enjoying poker more, which is more important to me.

What did I change? More aggression, more play in position, more floating, more calling 3-bets light. Next to that there are a lot of regulars which I enjoy playing against. Not the bad ones, but the good ones. Feels good to own them from time to time. Okay, it is mostly 100 and 200nl, but I enjoy it more like this and still make a decent amount of $.

Was down about 30 buyins and ended 10 bi up. Also competing in Eurolinx Rakeraces and still playing at the good old Stars. Software at Microgaming tillts me, but is fine compared to Everest or iPoker imo. Software at Stars is just great. Every week new improvements and finetuning. Still love to play there.

I am looking forward to the WSOP qualifiers that are coming up on Stars. Still have one step 6 ticket left (which is basically useless if i do not qualify obviously, but still nice to have).

On the Pokerstars VIP program: Check out SPASSM on Pokernews this Sunday.

Bye for now!

I hate steps, but cant stop playing them

Finally shipped a step 6 ticket. Wowzers.

Climbed all the way up from step 1. Decided to go playing them since I had about $300 W$ left. Still have $110 W$ left and now step 6. Prolly will wait for the wsop steps.

I hate steps

PokerStars Game #26238076214: Tournament #149914623, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2009/03/22 18:00:23 CET [2009/03/22 13:00:23 ET]
Table '149914623 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Le KID OM (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: flpro157 (1460 in chips)
Seat 3: Hagbart55 (1380 in chips)
Seat 4: OverChris (1470 in chips)
Seat 5: patek3970 (730 in chips)
Seat 6: Bobcats10 (1490 in chips)
Seat 7: Edme79 (1480 in chips)
Seat 8: aroaker (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: telbar (2490 in chips)
Edme79: posts small blind 10
aroaker: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Edme79 [6s 6h]
telbar: folds
Le KID OM is disconnected
Le KID OM is connected
Le KID OM: calls 20
flpro157: calls 20
Hagbart55: folds
OverChris: folds
patek3970: raises 60 to 80
Bobcats10: folds
Edme79: calls 70
aroaker: calls 60
Le KID OM: calls 60
flpro157: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [6c 7d Td]
Edme79: checks
aroaker: checks
Le KID OM: checks
flpro157: checks
patek3970: bets 650 and is all-in
Edme79: raises 750 to 1400 and is all-in
aroaker: folds
Le KID OM: raises 20 to 1420 and is all-in
flpro157: folds
Uncalled bet (20) returned to Le KID OM
*** TURN *** [6c 7d Td] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [6c 7d Td Qd] [Kd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Edme79: shows [6s 6h] (three of a kind, Sixes)
Le KID OM: shows [6d Ad] (a flush, Ace high)
Le KID OM collected 1500 from side pot
patek3970: shows [Qh Qs] (three of a kind, Queens)
Le KID OM collected 2350 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3850 Main pot 2350. Side pot 1500. | Rake 0
Board [6c 7d Td Qd Kd]
Seat 1: Le KID OM showed [6d Ad] and won (3850) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 2: flpro157 folded on the Flop
Seat 3: Hagbart55 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: OverChris folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: patek3970 showed [Qh Qs] and lost with three of a kind, Queens
Seat 6: Bobcats10 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Edme79 (small blind) showed [6s 6h] and lost with three of a kind, Sixes
Seat 8: aroaker (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 9: telbar folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Stars Support obv Rocks

Hello Edmé,

Thank you for contacting PokerStars and allowing us to be of assistance.

Hmmm - testing out the waters on other sites huh?

Now realising we have the best site you want to crawl back to us huh?

Well of course you are welcome to continue your poker playing endeavours on the best online poker site in the galaxy! (Although the PokerStarsmon(k)ey will need further coercing...)

If I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to ask and best of luck on the tables!

Regards,

MatthewR

PokerStars Support Team

----- Original Message ----

From: edmuntus@hotmail.com Sent: 2009/03/20 18:30:30

To: support@pokerstars.com

Subject: Almost left you

Dear Stars,

I did it. I deposited on another site and started playing there. However, I missed the Stars software, the people, the steps and obviously the Pokerstars mon(k)ey. Will you have me back? I will never leave you again! I promise.

Regards,

Edmé

Twitter

Just signed up at Twitter. It is a online messaging service, which you can update through text messages. Point is you can post short messages about what you are doing.

You can find me here.

I hope to post some more there then on my blog. Not just about poker, but day to day stuff as well.